Memory. (2020) Painting by Irina Andrianova

Since my childhood, I have been a deeply reflective child, and this manifested itself in the lack of attention and absent-mindedness (my parents suffered from this, and so did I as I saw they`re not happy with that).

So, what was it that I was so zealously and desperately thinking of? And it was - nothing... I was observing and going deep into the objects observed. We come to this world and we start loving it automatically - itʼs just the same as we love our parents. This is why we are so much attracted by mountains and sunsets. And we can watch them eternally, it seems. We do not dwell on what water, rocks and sun are made of... the entire picture, the generalized view give birth to the magic inside us. A tingly sense of delight, incomprehensible to the material part of our personality. It can only be perceived by something eternal, deep-down in us. And there is silence inside. And there is only admiration and warmth. And the feeling of eternal soul inside, so real and endless.

It was quite clear to me when a child. It appeared that practically all things could be contemplated like this. Even objects that are unpleasant sometimes.

This gift is chucked out of an adult by skittering and demanding character of the world around us. But I managed to keep this ability with me. It was due to this that I became an artist, I guess. It came from my inner eagerness to communicate this language of meditativeness, at least somehow. Why a language? Because I sometimes think using these images. But how it can be, you may ask. Some feelings can be perceived by me as “dirt falling from a rock” or as “a blue lagoon with tiny islands”. But sometimes those are just abstract combinations of colors.

I paint because I cannot help it. All my life experience has shown that I do not think myself without it. I had breaks, I got disappointed, and then I came to it again. Nothing has ever given birth to such a sublime feeling of satisfaction in me, but an emerging picture or a completed piece of art. I unleash my love towards the world through my artwork, my fears, my loneliness and my joy.

Now I do paintings, paint walls and give some classes.

Education:

Graduated from the School of Arts.

Earned a Tutor of Drawing degree.

Events:

Participation in the OLA Gallery & Atelje exhibition, Lund, Sweden.

Exhibitions:

“On the blank space” collective exhibition.

• Nationality: RUSSIA
• Date of birth : 1989
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Russian Contemporary Artists